A Tehran court recently sentenced a mother, her daughter and their friend for protesting the compulsory hijaab. Over the past two years many other women have also been arrested for taking part in the #WhiteWednesdays movement – a movement which was started by Iranian women posting photographs of themselves wearing white sans their hijaab. In…
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More than Our Bodies?
“But being uncomfortable is part and parcel of being a woman, right? Our emotions and stability as women are tied irrevocably to how our bodies are perceived. A woman’s body needs to be displayed lasciviously or hidden lasciviously. Comfort has always been secondary and in many instances, considered entirely unnecessary.”